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Quotes About Panic

When I didn't work on TV, that was OK because I was doing lots of theatre but I did begin to panic a bit.
~ Christopher Timothy
There is a difference between caution and panic.
~ Tate Reeves
I don't usually turn down work, it usually involves a very big debate with agents and family and your conscience and your sense of panic. But it is the only power we have, as actors - to say no.
~ Mark Bonnar
I've had paranoid panic attacks.
~ Katherine Heigl
When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
~ Peter Lynch
Geoff stared into Eric's vacant eyes and thought seriously about going into a mad panic: the sort of panic where you pull your hair out, eat some of it, then run around the room with your pants on your head screaming like a girl.
~ Peter Ward
I am taken aback by this excess precaution; in another context I would have found it ridiculous. But I understand the fear and panic he carries with him. I know how strong this fear is and also that it can't only be fear of being caught. It's a fear of himself too. A fear of what he is.
~ Philippe Besson
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
~ Phillip E. Johnson
While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational fashion and selling us certain stocks at prices far below their intrinsic value. More volatility equals cheaper stocks, which equals higher returns.
~ Whitney Tilson
Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
~ Kate Beckinsale
I'm afraid of bees.
~ Evan Fournier
There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
I automatically started thinking about what I'd do if I had to prove I was sane. I'd like to think that just being my normal, essentially sane self would be enough, but I'd probably behave in such an overly polite and helpful and competent manner I'd come across like a mad butler with panic in his eyes.
~ Jon Ronson
I phoned home but my wife didn't answer. It crossed my mind that she might be dead. I panicked. Then it turned out that she wasn't dead. She had just been at the shops.
~ Jon Ronson
Above all, she wondered why anyone would react to the global spread of a virus by buying almost two hundred rolls of toilet paper. Was this really people's darkest fear: that one day, because of a terrible economic crisis, or a crisis of public health, or the onset of climate catastrophe, they might not be able to wipe their bottoms?
~ Jonathan Coe
It made him very anxious. The feeling was like something from a dream, a dreamer's panicked sense of needing to be somewhere else, of being late for an important exam, of having forgotten he had a train to catch. How absurd that he'd thought he needed to prove himself stronger than his father. He'd been fighting a battle long since won, in an irrelevant sector of the dreamworld.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Salazar y Frias concluded that the witch panic had been called into existence by the witch-hunters: "I have not found the slightest evidence," he reported, "from which to infer that a single act of witchcraft has really occurred.
~ Jonathan Kirsch
I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed.
~ Jonathan Lethem
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
~ Earl Campbell
On climbs, there is a general way we manage fear. We look at things objectively, separating out perceived risk from real risk. You can really bring down the level of fear by knowing the real risks and setting aside the others. You also know that panicking just makes things worse.
~ Jimmy Chin
They increases the number of cases in news to create panic in people everyday. #CVirusfact
~ Probarb
Brett has just shit his pants. He's not crying or whimpering, but he's so full of fear, it's as if his body is imploding.
~ Quentin Tarantino
She's too stoned to run, but stoned enough to be terrified.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Alabama's so scared she pees on herself.
~ Quentin Tarantino